The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-09-17
THE SCHOOL SCANDAL
TALK OF THE TOWN YESTERDAY.

lAL oSAANNA SS4AhNDA 49,
TALK OF THE TOWN YESTERDAY.
IndIsnatlou In tho Eighth Ward.
The Members who Voted Against DIR.
Pipes Report Said to be contemplat.
ing Further Aotion-Now Stories.
Ono OF the mos. fruitful topics Of con.
vcraation this community has been To-
vored with for some time pastwas afford.
cd by the atirring and memorable meeting
Of tho Board OF Education held last
Thursday evening, and In that con.
nec!ion the scandal in which the
names Of Dr.. J. II. Pipes, the Piepi.
dent OF the Board, and Miss Jane A.
Greenles, who was rs.appointed "a a
teacher In Richie school alter IN unpre.
ccdeutedly bitter fight, figure 90 prcml.
nently. III I n
Heretofore tho discussion Of tho scandal
had been largely confined to the Eighth
ward, where tho pooplo wero directly in.
terestcd, and to tho members Of tho
Board. Yesterday everyone was talking
about the case, and tho particulars OF The
scandal were epqnirsd for and discussed
with m slmost morbid avidity. In bust.
nees hounes, in banks, aaloons, on the
streets and even In the schools, the matter
was talked over; and in connection with
the discuseion many vigorous opinions
were Expressed and threats made as to
what fate would await certain members
unless their votes were explained.
Tho story IS related by Dr.. Pipes him.
self at the regular August meeting OF the
Board, about an occurrence that happened
some years since in which he and Miss
Greenlee occupied, to gay the leass, rather
delicate positions, and which story was
corroborated by Miss Greonlee to several
members Of the Board, was in everyone'e
mouth Yesterday, and additional stories,
many OF which arc vouched for and said
10 bs backed up by tho strongest kind Of
evidence, had attained wide circulation
by evening. Nf@g
The Eighth ward was all torn up over
the matter. People would talk OF moth
ing else. A hundred suegeetions were
thrown out by both factions, any OF which
would have been followed by hundreds,
men and women, had any one been cool
headed enough to have acted as leader.
Some talked Of holding an indignation
meeting and calling on Dr.. Pipes to re-
sign, and aloo notifying Miss Greenlee in
an unmistakeable banner that her pres
ence WIS not desirable. Others urged the
calling oil u meeting for the purpose OF
expressing confidence in the Doctor and
Mics Gieenlee-a "vindicstion gather.
ling" so to speak. a"
The delegation that appeared before the
Board Thursday night to protest, was too
mad for uiterancs Gs they reflected that
their petition was not even acted upon
one way or another, and that they had
not been allowed to say word or explain
their reasons for believing what they do
OF DR.. Pipes and tho Objectionable teacher.
fThey were pretty hot towards MIR. Dob.
bins for the part he took in shutting them
ous-by moving the previous questlon,
and recalled how at tho Augass meeting,
when he was In the chair and Dr.. Pipes
was on the loor-Mr. Dohbins, aud The
baance OF tho Board, had permitted DR..
Pipes 10 epeak repeatedly and to 60 over
his petition, which contained tho names
oi those who afterwards learning what
they had signed, had gone to the, trouble
to aign the protest against Miss Greenlee.
The delegation conaidered the treat.
ment they had received very unfair.
But probably tho members OF the Board,
eight in number, who voted against Miss
Greeulee, were the most thoroughly dis.
Fgusted set Of men in ths city. They do
not consider themselves the minority
they count themselves as the sjority,
and consider the result az the outgrowth Of
an uufortunsts combination OF circum-
stances. Mr. Ellinghami who is openly
opposed 10 Miss Greenlee, was absent in
Denver; Mr. EschRtruth, Of Richie
district whoa tthe August meeting was Wig.
orcuoly opposed TO Miss GreeIiee because
ofthe transaction to which she and the Doc
! tor have confessed, and because OF otners
that are reported to have occurred, was
unaccountably mieaing on Thursday night
last, Dr.. J. B. Reed Ia etill confined to
bis bed by serious illneEa. He is relative
Of the Pipes family and at one time was
Dr.. Pipes partner. In ell this trouble NO
man has made more serious charges con.
cerning Dr.. Pipes than Dr.. Reed. Thus
! It YVES that three members were missing;
theeo three with the eight cons!itute o
majority. - ~ "a
Ii has been rumored that the eight will
reaign in body their placca In the Board;
4 H. a IN ~
that they will demand DR.. Pipes. Teaig-
nation; that they will have entered OF
| the minutes formal protest against both
the Doctor and Miss Grsenlee, and O
doz2n other reports as to what their
action will be, have been put in circuls.
ton. Those OF them interviewed yester.
day were Ieticent as to anything that
might DO done. All that were seen,
however, declared that they felt that an
outrage had been perpstrsted not only
on the Board but on the schools and tho
people. ..
Ia connection with all the talk there
| was dragged out ecsndaloua story about
an ex.teacher in the Ritchie echool.
Other stories were told, and If the one
tenth part Of all that has been reported
be true, there is q stste Of rotteness that
needs to bo speedily remedied, OF the
hieh moral tone and character that tho
public schools Of, Wheeling, and the tesch.
ers in the schools have always borne is
destroyed forever. In view Of the rumors
that were afioas yesterday it Ia safe to es.
aert that the racket is not yet over, and
that there are several interesting msstings
OF the Board to take plaza yet, and the
Eighth ward, aud the entire city ior that
matter, Ray yet be torn wider open than
1t has been. ~. 55 &. i'F.'!. Il r. 4%-ss1
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT.
n. II. vancleavo on Trial-Somo Minor
a Cases. ;sgss,s .7@ h .fl5sr
1 In tho Circuit !Cour. yesterday tho jury
In tha case OF William tLaucnlin cya;pat